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About
Peter Leigh
I
have been involved in making up pictures from either birch plywood or pine
wood. The birch ply pictures are cut out using a scroll saw, then backed
with a piece of blackened ply to give the finished effect. The plywood
pictures are mostly of famous people i.e. John Wayne, Elvis Presley,
Marilyn Munroe, James Dean, mostly American Stars.
The
pictures made from pine wood are cut out like a jigsaw then sanded to
round off the edges. They are then stained different colours and the parts
are glued back together either raising or lowering the piece to give a 3D
effect. When everything is dry, the item is then mounted on a wood
background and given several coats of satin varnish.
Most
breeds of dogs, cats and horses can be done from pictures. The patterns
all come from America. Every picture made in pine wood is different owing
to the grain of the wood.
Scroll
saw segmentation portraiture is a new and exciting technique that involves
a combination of fundamental scroll sawing and wood stain procedures. The
process enables any scroll saw artist capable of following a line to
create realistic looking three dimensional wooden portraits of objects,
wildlife, and even likenesses of real people. Like a beautiful oil
painting, a scroll sawn segmentation portrait in wood looks even more
realistic when viewed at some distance.
Up
close details may not make much sense, like the brushwork on the canvas of
fine art painting may look visually disconnected.
However,
when you step back a bit, all the colours, tones, textures and shadows
emerge as a wonderful, coherent image. By and large the more pieces and
the greater detail involved, the closer to photographic realism the whole
becomes.
Please
contact me if you have any queries - I also offer classes in scroll art.
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Peter
Leigh, 12 Valley Grove, Leslie, Fife, Scotland, KY6 3BZ
Telephone:
+44
(0) 1592 743539
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